I am your natural enemy.

Chapter 472: Strange Lock, Don’t Be Idle (5k)

Last time, in order to find the people who were affected and awakened their professional abilities, the Lieyang Tribe only arrested a lot of idiots who had some abilities and were willing to sneak in and pick locks.

The subsequent related impacts subsided and it was speculated that the dust had settled, but the person has not been found.

Related incidents have been ongoing. Since the suspect is not among those who have violated the law and discipline, we should continue to adopt a multi-pronged approach and look for him among those who have not come into sight.

Recruitment announcements are one of the ways. Anyone who has relevant experience or wants to do related work and wants to find a job proves that there has been a fluctuation in the other person's life.

According to general experience, if people have a stable life, their hostility will decrease and the probability of problems occurring will be small.

When fluctuations occur, the probability of something going wrong will begin to rise. Unemployment and job hunting are the most common major fluctuations in ordinary people's lives.

Therefore, when such people who have relevant work experience are looking for a new job, they will receive the recruitment push set up in advance by the Lieyang Department.

The basic treatment of the Lieyang Department is very good, and the expected income curve, expected treatment, and rising curve are all very clear. If you have the ability, you can get it. There are people who have earned tens of millions in monthly income after tax.

You don't even want money anymore, you want various resources. As long as you have enough merits, you can exchange them directly.

Earlier, some people felt that this would be a repetition of Zheng Ge's old military merit system. Later, as the progress of the spiritual energy recovery accelerated, no one complained anymore.

This year, seeing the millions of souls of the Nanyang Alliance rushing past like a torrent, no one mentioned the current merit system of the Lieyang Tribe anymore.

Because everyone knows that when faced with the same situation, even if the Lieyang Tribe is so motivated now, there are not enough effective manpower. If the incentives are abolished, it will be even more terrible.

In Apia's version, it is impossible to drop effective weapons of mass destruction into one's own city.

What can be used are various masters, especially masters like Tuoba Wushen who can be called human-shaped weapons of mass destruction but will not cause harm to ordinary people.

Recruitment is always ongoing. For some professionals whose professional abilities seem strange or useless, the Lieyang Department will register them first. If they have other abilities, they will be recommended for appropriate jobs.

Ji Youli came to apply for a job, and everything was normal procedure. The clerk in Yuzhou Lieyang Department took him to the interview place, which was related to locks, from the most basic lock picking to lock design and manufacturing, the development of locks, various classical locks, and all kinds of directions.

Applicants can make their own choice.

Ji Youli looked at the many things here. In addition to the geographical location and the large area, he also saw many things that seemed to be antiques after coming in. He felt a little relieved in his heart. This might indeed be a unit related to archaeology.

It was a simple test, unlocking the lock was not difficult for Ji Youli, and he completed the test very quickly.

The clerk who was taking notes with a notebook nearby thought Ji Youli's level was normal at first, until Ji Youli opened nine of the ten locks used for test unlocking in one breath. The clerk's eyes changed a little.

He just told Ji Youli that the test results were directly related to whether he could pass or not, and also affected his future treatment.

But he didn't tell Ji Youli that among the ten locks, except for the first eight which have increasing difficulty, the last two are actually rare objects.

To be able to open the last two, either one has a very high level of technical skills, or one is a practitioner of related professions and has special abilities.

No matter which one it is, Ji Youli has already met the standards for additional recruitment in the Lieyang Department.

The clerk took the device and while Ji Youli was still trying to open the tenth lock, he immediately clicked on a special mark on the page.

Soon, the office staff received instructions to continue testing.

Ji Youli's information also began to officially enter the sight of the Lieyang Tribe.

Feng Yao saw the files that needed to be processed immediately and immediately raised the confidentiality level of Ji Youli's information.

In less than half a minute, he saw the prompt again, and Ji Youli opened all ten locks.

Feng Yao decisively raised the confidentiality level to the highest level under his current authority.

With this level of skill and speed, he is already the strongest locksmith the Lieyang Tribe has found so far.

Anyone who could open those two completely different magic locks in such a short time must be a related professional.

Ji Youli held a golden brass lock in his hand, which was embedded in a stone. There was a little sweat on his forehead. The first eight were not difficult for him.

But the difficulty of the last two suddenly increased, especially the last one. In his perception, the internal structure of the lock was like an automatic transmission device. As he tried to unlock it, the internal structure was constantly undergoing subtle changes.

Moreover, the structure that emerged in his mind was also extremely complex and of very high precision. Before the two parts were separated, the structure in his mind could not see any boundary between the two parts and he almost mistook them for one part.

He opened the lock and was about to continue with the next test, but was told that it was not necessary for the time being, and if he was willing, he could start work today.

Ji Youli has some idea of ​​his own strength. He has a solid foundation, but his hard power is not particularly high. It all depends on his special ability.

He was still a little surprised that he could start the job so easily.

"Can you wait a few days? I'll make some arrangements first."

"You can sign the document first, and then take your time with the subsequent formalities." Of course, the clerk knew why Ji Youli had to wait, because he had not yet left his previous job.

Half an hour later, Ji Youli walked out of the Yuzhou Lieyang Department's logistics building with a hint of trance in his eyes.

He had read the contract himself and found no problems. All wages and benefits were actually written in the contract. There was no trick in the basic salary and it was written clearly. He found it a little unbelievable.

In fact, he didn't take the recruitment notice seriously before. He felt that if he took into account salary, bonus, performance, overtime pay and so on, he would get about 7,000 to 8,000 yuan a month. As long as the social security and provident fund were paid, that would be pretty good.

Unexpectedly, it was much better than expected.

In the Lieyang Department of Yuzhou, Feng Yao looked at Ji Youli's information. There was nothing special about him. He was a very ordinary and down-to-earth person. He could work peacefully for so many years in a factory that could be considered as tax evasion every year, and he even saved his neighbor before.

The reason I came to apply for the job this time was because the boss of that factory was burned to death in the office, and it was obvious that the factory could no longer operate.

This case has just been handed over to the Lieyang Department after preliminary investigation.

At least according to the current information, Ji Youli should be a professional, but we don't know what profession he is. His temperament, experience, and various records have been reviewed and are in line with the recruitment requirements for the Lieyang Tribe's logistics.

It’s always a good idea to keep it first, and then close the door and do upper limit testing later.

In this test, the relevant records were also changed to nine locks. Ten locks were really eye-catching.

Those with sufficient authority can naturally see the most authentic test records. Those without sufficient authority can only see nine.

Let’s put this matter aside for now and deal with it after Ji Youli joins the company. We can’t pay too much attention to it and can only follow the normal procedures.

If you pay too much attention to the locksmith's affairs, you may bring uncertain danger to the other party.

Feng Yao closed the page and continued reading the case of the fire at the security door manufacturer.

The current test results are very strange. It looks like the boss suffered muscle spasms after being electrocuted, and was "sucked" and then burned to death.

But leaving aside the 220-volt voltage, it is basically unlikely that such a situation would occur, and the on-site investigation there did not show any situation where the hand spasmed and the person was unable to release the point of electric shock.

The most important thing is that there was no sign of electric shock on the boss's body.

Therefore, the investigation result showed that the boss of the security door factory just struggled on the spot, allowing himself to be burned to death without moving a step.

Such a weird result that completely violates biological instincts was naturally handed over to the Lieyang Tribe.

The Lieyang Division also has field agents carrying equipment to conduct on-site investigations.

After Feng Yao had been busy for a while, the results of the on-site investigation came over.

There are traces of aliens or professionals taking action, but this time it is quite rare. It was measured with a specially made portable spectrometer and compared with the big data in the Lieyang Department's database.

The reference given by AI is similar to the power of some alien creatures in Europa, but the existing data does not have a matching target.

Feng Yao originally wanted to squeeze Huang Zhiji of Maoshan, but after picking up the phone and starting the call, he changed his mind.

He called Wen Yan.

I heard that Wen Yan was in Qingcheng Mountain and had so much free time that he lay on a warm rock to sunbathe his back, and even pretended to read a book, which he could read for three hours at a time.

How could he not know what kind of person Wen Yan is?
All the energy that Wen Yan could put into reading and studying in his life was used up when he was in school.

Now asking him to write a self-experience report is like taking three packets of montmorillonite powder when he was constipated.

This guy can call him in the middle of the night, so there must be something going on, and it seems to be quite tricky, so Wen Yan can't be left idle!

There are certain similarities between them and some of the alien creatures over in Europa, so it would be best to ask Gauss to take a look.

It would be better to go directly to Wen Yan. If needed, Wen Yan will go to Gauss himself.

Feng Yao happily dialed the number and heard a prompt coming from the phone.

"The number you dialed is temporarily unavailable..." Feng Yao pondered for a moment, is this the underworld?

He sent a message to Wen Yan and asked her to call him back.

On the other side, Wen Yan, who was missed by Feng Yao, came to Luoyu Courtyard again. It had been three or four days. Maybe the equipment had captured something.

In case you really manage to take some pictures, don't let the battery run out or the memory card be full.

Arriving outside the rainy courtyard, Wen Yan first took out his mobile phone, took a few photos, and then went back to show them to Black Box for comparison.

Pushing open the gate of the courtyard, it was as quiet as ever inside. He took out the filming equipment and looked at the storage space. Only a small part was filled.

But just this part made Wen Yan excited, which meant that something must have been captured.

He checked the yard, took a bunch of photos of the yard again, and took them back for black box comparison.

After returning from Luoyu Courtyard, Wen Yan saw Feng Yao's message. Judging from the tone, she seemed not to be in a hurry and there were no punctuation marks. So he took the data cable, connected the camera, and gave it to the black box for backup.

Then let Black Box compare the photos.

Comparing the photos, there were slight differences with the photos of the gate he took when he left last time, indicating that the door had been moved.

There are two places in the yard where the differences can be seen in the photos.

One place is still the gate, and the other place is a corner of the wall.

After completing the backup and comparing the photos, Wen Yan began to watch the video.

Not many videos.

The first video was of him. Wen Yan fast-forwarded through it and took a look, confirming that there was nothing wrong. The black box also said there was nothing wrong, so he ignored it.

Then Wen Yan sat up straight.

The video captured something squeezing in from a corner of the wall. There were eyeballs and mucus. After those things fell into the yard, they hid in the shadows of the corner.

In the next paragraph, I finally saw someone, a white-haired old man. He pushed open the door, stood at the door, looked at his feet, then smiled, closed the door again and left.

When the white-haired old man left, a shadow appeared in the picture captured in the video, and the shadow followed him out the door.

This is a repaired picture of the black box. In the normal picture, the problem cannot be seen with the naked eye.

When comparing the video images, the black box captured some pixel-level changes in the images. After eliminating the influence of light and shadow, it magnified those changes so that Wen Yan could see them with the naked eye.

Something that could hide in the shadows slipped into the rainy courtyard through a loophole.

Something had sneaked from Gu Meng into Luo Yu Courtyard, and now it was taken out of Luo Yu Courtyard. Judging from the situation, the guy with the gray hair probably just came to see if the letter was still there, and he had no idea that he had taken the thing out.

When Wen Yan went there just now, he didn't sense anything nearby. There was still only the lingering unpleasant aura.

Has this thing escaped?

It was a really unexpected gain. Not only did I see who could come to the Rainy Courtyard, but I also discovered some extra things.

Wen Yan asked the black box to do facial recognition and compare the identity. The black box did not match any information, so it continued to compare. After a few minutes, it gave a few suspected targets.

Wen Yan took a look at the photos provided by the black box and confirmed at a glance that one of the black and white photos was the person in the video.

There is very little information about this person. The information shows that he died nearly forty years ago, and his children also died one after another between twenty and a few years ago.

According to records, this man fled from the war in his early years and was eventually conscripted. More than 70 years ago, he was assigned to Guanzhong County to open up wasteland. More than 60 years ago, he went down a mine to dig coal in Guanzhong County and died in a mine collapse.

There are no more records since then. The current record is not the information of a single person, but was found in the information of a coal mine.

Wen Yan asked Black Box to tell the director, then he picked up the phone and called Feng Yao back.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

"I have a case that I'll push to you. Please take a look. If you are free, please take it. At the moment, it seems a bit troublesome. We may need to ask Gauss for help. Ordinary field staff cannot handle it."

"Okay, let me take a look."

"If you are free, come over and talk in person. I have something else to tell you."

"Row."

More than twenty minutes later, Wen Yan appeared in Feng Yao's office, looking at the information while listening to Feng Yao talking about the case.

"The results of the current investigation are not ideal. The cameras in the factory, except in the workshop, are just for decoration and have not captured any useful information.

The factory was located in the suburbs, and the nearby cameras did not capture any suspicious persons.

In addition, there were many people who had conflicts with the deceased during his lifetime, including three ex-wives alone.

This month, an ex-wife came to his house and scratched his face because she didn’t pay child support.”

"It's only been a few days since the beginning of this month..."

"That's this month."

"..."

Wen Yan was speechless. To be honest, only one person died, and the fire only burned that office. Wen Yan felt that even if someone took action, they were quite restrained.

If a boss of this kind fell into Pei Tugou's hands, he would definitely be hung on the street lamp as a standard street lamp pendant for public display.

From a personal emotional point of view, he really doesn't want to care about the life or death of this pendant, but as a case, he still has to investigate it as he should.

If this was truly a man-made murder, arson would be an extremely violent form of revenge.

Judging from the risk of losing control alone, the probability of this person losing control is much higher than that of Pei Tugou. Pei Tugou is too murderous, but he also has great restrictions, so the risk of losing control is extremely low.

"Okay, I'll go over and take a look now. If there's anything you need from Gauss, I'll contact Gauss's advisor."

"Wait, there is another thing I want to tell you."

"What's the matter?"

"Today, a man came for an interview. He was able to open ten locks in a very short time, including two rare locks. This is the highest record so far. This man is a technician in the anti-theft door factory case. Because of the factory's affairs and his boss's really bad attitude, he was looking for a new job, and was accurately pushed a recruitment advertisement by the Lieyang Department."

"Hey, is this person the target we are looking for?"

"I'm not sure yet. We haven't done any follow-up tests yet. All I can say for sure is that this is not his upper limit."

"You mean, let me talk to this person too?"

"If you investigate this case, he must have had contact with the other party. By the way, check whether the case of the security door factory has any connection with him. After all, this person must be a professional. Completely eliminate the suspicion, so that I can receive him for logistics."

"it is good."

Wen Yan agreed and immediately went to the crime scene.

When they arrived at the place and approached the dark, burnt office, Wen Yan frowned slightly.

A familiar feeling emerged.

It was dark and cold, as if all the temperature had disappeared, leaving a dead silence.

Wen Yan entered the office where the fire broke out, and the remaining feeling here became clearer.

The yang energy in Wen Yan's body spread out, filling the entire office on fire, and the slight feeling of discomfort disappeared.

Wen Yan keenly noticed that many dark places in the room could now be seen.

Before, those places seemed to be shrouded in shadows, blending in with the blackened environment here.

We are in trouble. It’s the thing that ran out from the rainy yard.

Moreover, Wen Yan felt a sense of familiarity from it. He had encountered this thing in his old dream.

This thing leapt from the old dream into the present world.

(End of this chapter)